I'm actually glad we play them in Week 1. If it were up to me, we would start with Baltimore, KC, and the Bengals. The first few weeks are such an anomaly of performance and I'd rather just get them out of the way.
Plus, besides playoff seeding, we've come to realize very clearly that regular season outcomes have no influence over post-season outcomes. Play them, get it over with, show nothing on tape.
Destroy them in the playoffs.